Having finished the Tools of the Trade series on circuit board assembly, let’s look at some of the common methods for doing enclosures. First, and possibly the most common, is injection molding. This ...

Flash in injection molding, a common defect where excess molten plastic escapes the cavity and solidifies into thin, unwanted protrusions, remains a persistent challenge for manufacturers. This issue ...

Rotating stack molds give designers a variety of options for not only molding multicomponent parts but also doing secondary assembly operations inside the injection molding machine. ''What will it ...

The global market for plastic injection molded parts is currently valued at $325 billion, and this number is expected to grow by 5.7% through at least 2025. Spurred by the rapidly developing economies ...

Structural analyis codes already do a good job predicting the performance of molded plastic parts. Yet, their results never tell the full story because the mechanical properties of those parts depend ...